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snailicides

snailicides is the plural of snailicide.

Meaning of snailicide

Noun

snailicide (countable and uncountable, plural snailicides)

  1. A substance that kills snails.
    • Organic snailicides for Katayama nosophora. J. Pharm. Soc. Japan. 69, 396-8, 1949. Citado segundo Chem. Abstr. 44, 3196, 1950.1951, Anais da Faculdade de Farmácia e Odontologia da Universidade de São Paulo, page 50
  2. (rare) The killing of a snail.
    • commit snailicide[…]SNAIL, SLUG & INSECT KILLER1979, Sunset, page 154

Questions about snailicides

What is snailicides the plural of?
Snailicides is the plural of snailicide.

Words near snailicides in the dictionary

  1. snailfish
  2. snailfishes
  3. snailflower
  4. snailflowers
  5. snailicide
  6. snailicides
  7. snailier
  8. snailiest
  9. snailing
  10. snailish
  11. snailishly

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